Quotes About Optimism

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present, or will decline from it; despair is a confident memory of the future...Optimism is similarly confident about what will happen. Both are grounds for not acting. Hope can be the knowledge that we don't have that memory, and that reality doesn't necessarily match our plans

Despair is also often premature: it's a form of impatience as well as of certainty.

We are by nature optimists, if optimism means that we believe we see the world as it is.

En mi opinión, su habilidad más importante era sencillamente el optimismo que les hacía pensar que iban a sobrevivir y encontrar el camino».

We don't know what is going to happen, or how, or when, and that very uncertainty is the space of hope.

Saying that everything is fine or that it will never get any better are ways of going nowhere or of making it impossible to go anywhere. Either approach implies that there is no road out or that, if there is, you don't need to or can't go down it.

Gonzalez adds, "Researchers point out that people tend to take any information as confirmation of their mental models. We are by nature optimists, if optimism means that we believe we see the world as it is. And under the influence of a plan, it's easy to see what we want to see.

There are people for whom there is only one sun in the sky or darkness, and there are those who live in a night filled with stars

Critical thinking without hope is cynicism, but hope without critical thinking is naïvete," the Bulgarian writer Maria Popova recently remarked.

Wir müssen uns Milarepa als glücklichen Menschen vorstellen, so wie Albert Camus uns Sisyphos beschreibt. Auch mein Weg, mein Optimismus, mein Humor, meine Lebensfreude sind zuallererst der Fähigkeit geschuldet, Sinn zu stiften. Sind doch Sinn und das Absurde untrennbar miteinander verwoben. Wie Leben und Tod auch.

The greatness of Zemurray lies in the fact that he never lost faith in his ability to salvage a situation. Bad things happened to him as bad things happen to everyone, but unlike so many he was never tempted by failure. He never felt powerless or trapped. He was, as I said, an optimist. He stood in constant defiance.

I now know my children will live in a world far different from own. In their world, the Cubs are the best team in baseball.

The greatness of Zemurray lies in the fact that he never lost faith in his ability to salvage a situation. Bad things happened to him as bad things happen to everyone, but unlike so many he was never tempted by failure. He never felt powerless or trapped. He was, as I said

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

Happiness is a choice. It is not always an easy one.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Nemalonumai nÄ—ra pats blogiausias dalykas, kuris mums gali atsitikti. Baisiausia yra, kai mums NIEKO neatsitinka!

I'm fine. Indestructible.

There's no way to tell bad news from good as it's happening. We'll find out which the moment we realize, long-term, it's all good.

Hep yapmay? hayal ettiÄŸiniz ÅŸeyi sonuna kadar yaÅŸay?n, kendinizi kötü hissetmenize f?rsat kalmayacakt?r.

Her sunny side was always up.

I guess some people lived like Reader's Digest, but I hadn't met any and at that time it seemed doubtful that I ever would

Wherever you are, we must do the best we can. It is so far to travel, and we have nothing here to travel, except watermelon sugar..

In a low state of mind, everything seems really bad and worse than it probably is.